Tony Orlando

Along with the actual handing out of trophies, the annual Grammy Awards ceremony has become as much about unexpected — and sometimes utterly head-scratching — collaborations among disparate musicians for the national TV broadcast. Just last year, heavy metal band Metallica teamed up with Chinese classical pianist Lang Lang for one of the show's myriad performance numbers, which also included ex-Beatle Paul McCartney aligned with the surviving members of grunge rock band Nirvana. Those are in many cases the brainchild of the Grammy telecast's executive producer, Ken Ehrlich, who since the '70s has been doing his level best to make television viewers perk up...

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